Steven Erlanger

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Steven Erlanger |Jeanna Smialek |Lara Jakes |Mark Landler |Aurelien Breeden

Despite Europe's size, economic might and longstanding alliances with Washington, Trump officials have made clear it is not a priority, European officials say. For European allies of the United States, President Trump's White House is structured like a court: the gilded Oval Office a place for advisers, pals and courtiers, all awaiting the decrees of the president. Mr. Trump is the ultimate decision maker, and far from a predictable one.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Steven Erlanger

Expected talks between Iran and the United States would be a late, and perhaps last, opportunity to control Tehran's nuclear ambitions and avoid war. Talks between the United States and Iran, which President Trump said on Monday would begin on Saturday in Oman, face considerable problems of substance and well-earned mistrust. But time is short for what is likely to be a complicated negotiation.

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Steven Erlanger

Opinion | Tehran gets a taste of Trump the dealmakerHas the president’s instinct for drama created an opening for a new nuclear agreement? ABU DHABI — President Donald Trump launched his bid for a nuclear deal with Iran on Monday with a familiar tactic: He held a noisy news conference in the Oval Office and laid out his negotiating plan while a wary …

2 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Steven Erlanger

9 hours agoFor months, an internet-wide guessing game has swirled around the question of where Elon Musk’s intelligence falls on the bell curve. President Trump has called Musk a “seriously high I.Q. individual.” Musk’s onetime biographer Seth Abramson wrote on X that he would “peg his I.Q. as between 100 and …

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Steven Erlanger

It was not long ago that President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was marshaling European allies to resist the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He illustrated the point that a top American diplomat, R. Nicholas Burns, recently summarized as the way the United States wins the global competition for power and prosperity: "Be nice to your allies."President Trump clearly has a different view. His antagonism toward Europe has been public for decades, seeing allies as economic competitors and geopolitical parasites.